"Cliff" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:28:23 +0000, Pete Wilcox wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Cliff wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:18:27 -0600, "John Scheldroup"
wrote:

Start taking massive doses of vitamin C - 1000-4000 mg per hour or more

This may be both unwise & unsafe.

I'm not so sure about 1-4g per *hour*, but Linus Pauling advocated and
practised megadosing on VitC (5g per day, I think) and he lived to the age
of ninety, so he might have been onto something!

Moses lived 120 years and spent 40 wandering lost in a desert.
QED Water is bad for you.

Noah lived 350 years after the flood.
QED Water is good for you.

Isn't it the case that
the body can only process so many mg per hour anyway, and anything in
excess of this is simply excreted in the urine?

You could bottle it & sell it to the third world as a health product.

"Excess Vitamin C May Worsen Osteoarthritis"
"Intakes of vitamin C above 100 mg do not result in an increase of ascorbic
acid levels."
"Unabsorbed vitamin C continues into the lower bowel and causes watery stools
or diarrhea."

Germs...

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/germs.html
[
Protozoa (say: pro-toh-zoh-uh) are one-cell organisms that love moisture and
often spread diseases through water. Some protozoa cause intestinal infections
that lead to diarrhea (runny poop), nausea, and belly pain.
]

Colds are caused by viruses, not bacteria.

http://www.drgreene.com/21_1490.html
[
The cold virus lives best at 98.6 degrees, so raising the temperature in the
throat and nose can help. Drinking lots of hot tea and chicken soup and
breathing in steam can help.

Salt makes it more difficult for the cold virus to replicate--another
good reason for chicken soup, which is often loaded with sodium.
]

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/germs.html
[
Viruses (say: vy-rus-iz) need to be inside living cells to grow and reproduce.
Most viruses can't survive very long if they're not inside a living thing like a
plant, animal, or person. Whatever a virus lives in is called its host. When
viruses get inside people's bodies, they can spread and make people sick.
Viruses cause chicken pox, measles, flu, and many other diseases. Because
some viruses can live for a while on something like a door knob or countertop,
be sure to wash your hands regularly!
]

About 10 years ago, an Australian doctor started saying that ulcer sufferers
often had a 'new' germ in their stomachs.

For a while, nobody paid him any attention.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc.../mole00179.htm
[
Bacteria that are not killed by acid, that in fact
love to live in an acidic environment, is Helicobacter
pylori. As you can imagine they live in the stomach
which is their natural niche. However, most bacteria
do not like acidity and will suffer.
]

Did you know that Darker Chocolate is more Alkaline ?,
been told what so far about Chocolate consumption besides,
what's in your cavities ? g

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Has anyone tried eating dark chocolate with a common Cold ??,
50 mg Zinc caplets right before the cough/cold does work.
I take one 50 mg everyday.

John